But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in theprocess and conceding none.
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard[…] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”:[…] In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned theprocess of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, inModern Railways, page73:
For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stageprocess of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.
1960, Mack Tyner,Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily aprocess plant will use a steam boiler to supply itsprocess heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
1987, J. R. Richards,Principles of control system design inModelling and control of fermentationprocesses – The wordsplant orprocess infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemicalprocess in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
A path or succession of states through which asystem passes.
2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on14 November 2012, page23:
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes toprocesses that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
(biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
(law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as asummons,mandate, orwrit.
1711, John Spotiswood,The Form of Process[2], section 39:
But if either atCalling by the Clerk, after theSession Bell, or before the Ordinary by theRoll, anAdvocat compears, and craves to beMarked for theDefender, and to see theProcess; TheClerk in the firstCase, and theJudge in the second, will allow him to see it
(anatomy) An outgrowth oftissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of ajoint or the attachment point for amuscle.
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process (third-person singular simple presentprocesses,present participleprocessing,simple past and past participleprocessed)
(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
We haveprocessed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
2006,Michael Grecco,Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books,→ISBN, page92:
If youprocess you own digital files, it's as time consuming, or maybe even more time consuming, than it is toprocess and print your own film.
2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, inCNN[3]:
CBP told CNN it currentlyprocesses “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”
(transitive,figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order toassimilate it, and perhapsaccept it in a modified state.
I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while toprocess.
1845,Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland:
When I saw that he would not let me alone, Iprocessed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.
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2004, Robert S. Nelson, chapter 1, inHagia Sophia, 1850–1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument[4], page13:
Prayers completed and Psalms ending, patriarch, emperor, and their sumptuously clad entourages move past the open, silver-clad wings of the Imperial Door andprocess into the crowded nave and continue to the sanctuary at the east.
